Annie Awards

Final Adventure Time Recording Session

This week (31/01/2017), the Adventure Time crew and cast commemorated the final Adventure Time episode recording session with a party, voice actors and actresses of the characters from the show attended the final session; including John DiMaggio (Jake), Hynden Walch (Princess Bubblegum), Tom Kenny (Ice King) and Olivia Olson (Marceline The Vampire Queen). Since the show’s premiere in 2010, Adventure Time has been a huge hit for Cartoon Network both in the United States and internationally, the show has won six Primetime Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, two Annie Awards, two British Academy Children’s Awards among others. The show will conclude in 2018, after eight years and 284 episodes.

This week (30/01/2017 – 02/02/2017), the miniseries – Adventure Time: Islands aired on Cartoon Network USA and Cartoon Network Canada, the miniseries finally answered a couple of questions about the show – Are there any other humans left, and where are they? and Where are Finn’s real parents?. Adventure Time: Islands was written by head writer Kent Osborne, with Adam Muto, Jack Pendarvis and Ashly Burch as showrunners.

For sneak peeks of upcoming Adventure Time episodes just before they’re about to air, check out the RegularCapital Twitter account (@RegularTweetsUK) every video clip Cartoon Network USA uploads onto YouTube is automatically posted on the Twitter account, just look for any tweet starting with “CartoonNetUSA” (short for Cartoon Network USA) by using the search function on Twitter. YouTube video uploads from international versions of Cartoon Network and Boomerang are also automatically posted e.g. tweets starting with “CartoonNetUK” for Cartoon Network UK or “BoomerangFR” for Boomerang France.

44th Annie Awards Nominations Shortlist

ASIFA-Hollywood has released their nominations shortlist for the 44th Annie Awards. The Annie Awards is an annual awards ceremony to honor individuals who have made significant contributions to the art of animation, an Annie Award is a highly regarded accolade for excellence in the field of animation.

According to the shortlist, Cartoon Network has been awarded four nominations, three for the special stop-motion episode of Adventure Time – Bad Jubies (Best Animated Television/Broadcast Production For Children, Outstanding Achievement, Production Design in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production and Best General Audience Animated Television/Broadcast Production) and one for the Long Live The Royals episode called “Punk Show” (Best General Audience Animated Television/Broadcast Production).

The Outstanding Achievement, Directing in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production award was nominated specifically for Kirsten Lepore for her work as director on the Adventure Time: Bad Jubies special. The Outstanding Achievement, Production Design in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production was nominated specifically for Jason Kolowski for his Production Design work on the Adventure Time: Bad Jubies special.

The 44th Annie Awards will be held at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles, California on Saturday 4th February 2017.

Warner Bros. (sister company of Turner, the owners of Cartoon Network) has been nominated for two awards, one for the 3D CGI motion picture – Storks (Outstanding Achievement, Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production) by Warner Animation Group and another one for Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (Outstanding Achievement, Music in an Animated Feature Production) by Warner Bros. Animation.

The Outstanding Achievement, Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production was nominated specifically for Katie Crown for her voice acting work as the voice of Tulip in the movie. The Outstanding Achievement, Music in an Animated Feature Production award was nominated specifically for composers Kristopher Carter, Lolita Ritmanis and Michael McCuistion.

A full list of all the 44th Annie Awards nominations can be viewed on the link below:

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